Tempelhof Airport stands as a symbol of resilience in Berlin's tumultuous history. During the Berlin Airlift, this site ...

President Truman, elected for a second term, emerged as the strong man of the Cold War. All told, the airlift delivered 1.7 million tons of essential food and fuel to the people of West Berlin.

FRANKFURT, May 12, 1949 (UP) -- With 1,583,721 tons and 194,531 flights behind them, the airlift boys kept them flying today. The hundreds of American and British planes which supplied blockaded ...

A monument in Germany acknowledges Halvorsen's contributions during the Berlin Airlift. OFTW/Wikimedia ... the “Candy Bomber” who, during the Cold War, dropped sweets from his plane to German ...

Joint Sword exercises, and more recent Strait Thunder-2025A exercise, awakened the public psyche to the reality that the ...

With two Cold War historians along for the ride ... Neel Mehra (’27) brought his role as the “Candy Bomber” of the Berlin Airlift to life, passing out sweets to the group. “It was amazing to present ...

The result was a Cold War coup, the airlift of supplies directly into West Berlin. But with two other commercial airports now serving the city, officials sought to close Tempelhof in 2008.

a triumph for the West and one of the defining moments of the Cold War. For 323 days after the Soviets blockaded West Berlin to try to drive the West out — from June 24, 1948, to May 12 ...

As a Berlin museum with Russian trustees commemorates an allied victory over the Soviet Union, it is also negotiating the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. By Catherine Hickley ...